Report: Wausau jail dangerously understaffed

Six years ago a consultants' report concluded that the Marathon County Jail was so understaffed that employees could be in danger. This week, staffing was even lower at the time an inmate attacked and critically injured a corrections officer.

But 27-year-old Melissa J. Johnson of Amherst disagrees. She says her mother is a corrections officer at the jail, and Johnson fears for her mother's life every time she goes to work because of understaffing.